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Shatterstar ✷ Gaveedra-Seven ([personal profile] entertaining) wrote in [community profile] capeandcowl2012-05-13 09:04 pm

x-factor investigations starts off with some great PR

-- unbelievable.

[ there's the sound of clattering as the video comes on, like someone knocked the communicator over but is obviously too preoccupied to notice. even though there's only a crooked view of someone's feet, rictor's voice is raised and clearly audible. ]

What part of this did you think I'd be okay with, exactly? Or weren't you thinking about me at all?

I do not know. [shatterstar sounds defensive, but like he's rather missing the point:] Why would this upset you? You were not here.

Why would it upset me? [ there's a tone of incredulity in rictor's voice. ] Oh, wait. That's right. You wouldn't understand because you have no concept of what it feels like to only want to be with one person.

When I was not in your dimension, you were with others. How is this different? [a beat, heatedly:] And you also wish to be with Rahne.

Rahne is different. I thought she was pregnant with my -- [ hhurghh. ] That's not the point.

[ the camera starts to get unsteady, trembling a little at first, then more as rictor continues to raise his voice. ]

This isn't about me and her. It's about us, or if there even is an us at all --

Of course there is an- [and then, when the shaking becomes too intense to ignore-] Rictor? Julio!

What? [ the whole building lurches one more time.







then stops. because he stops. he realizes. dead silent and still for a long moment.
]

...That was me.

[END FEED]
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[personal profile] shakeandbake 2012-05-14 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I've already done my fair share of abnormal relationships.

I don't think I'm really asking for a lot here.
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[personal profile] insufferablysmug 2012-05-15 07:06 am (UTC)(link)
If you say so.